Hey everyone,
Sorry for my recent absence. I came down with a nasty flu very early into the New Year and basically have been spending most of my time in bed since my last post. I’m feeling a lot better now however, so you should start seeing regularly scheduled posting commence again tomorrow at The Toronto Traveler.
Thanks everyone for your patience!
Well well well, I don’t get the chance to post for a few days and still there are only three interesting stories available from the news sites I browse for this segment. I guess Toronto’s in a rut right now for interesting travel news, although if you are interested in daily Toronto news that is not necessarily travel-centric, there’s a lot of it that you can get from a number of different websites. I’ll probably talk about those websites soon enough and add them to the blogroll.
For now, here are the most recent happenings in the GTA that might be …read more
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If you have no idea who Gertraud Mohwald is, don’t worry. I actually didn’t either until I did the research for this post! That might just be me showing my bias for events in the city that are musical in nature rather than artistic, but for all of you I’m making an effort to expand my horizons!
Gertraud Mohwald is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 1950s, as most of her work came through in the conditions of the post-war European continent. In the wake of World War II and before the reconstruction efforts led largely by …read more
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Mozart is an 18th century composer that was responsible for the creation of many well known and easily recognizable pieces, although of course some of them have been parodied to the extent that you might not initially realize that they were composed by him. He’s also probably one of my favourite composers, which is quite naturally why I decided to blog about this upcoming event .
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is going to be kicking off their Mozart Festival at Roy Thomson Hall through the performance of Symphony Number 40 by Mozart, with one of Canada’s best soprano opera singers …read more
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Well, it appears that even though it hasn’t snowed in Toronto for awhile and even though there is no snow anywhere on the ground, city officials are still having problems with the weather. In particular, the wind. And that is what kicks off this edition of news from Toronto that travelers might find interesting.
1) Hydro crews are still scrambling to try and fix much of the fallout that has come from damages caused by heavy winds.
2) Raptors destroy 76ers at the Air Canada Centre.
3) Leafs end up losing (again), but captain Mats Sundin vows to stay with the team. Looks …read more
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Hopefully you guys are enjoying the short news updates, since I find that putting them together and finding specific news stories that might be interesting to tourists forces me to read through the news each day, something that I really should be doing but previously have usually found a way to get around through using school or work as an excuse. In any case, here are the stories for today!
1) Waterfront skateboard park now open to anyone that wants a ride.
2) Founder of George Brown Theatre School in Toronto dead at 87.
3) Apparently, wind storms have the ability to knock …read more
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Aaron Davis is a composer and a keyboardist that has lots of years of experience in both of those fields as they relate to jazz blues and a person that can currently be seen regularly playing and arranging music for the singer Holly Cole. Suzie Vinnick is a blues singer that has won a number of awards for her great talents and is also someone that has been credited with writing some of her own songs as well as playing some musical accompaniment on different instrumental recordings.
Together, the two of them are going to sound terrific and it is in …read more
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Well well well, if you picked January of 2008 (and in particular this week) to travel to Toronto, then you might be extremely glad or extremely frustrated depending on what you came to the city for. If you came here dreading the cold winters of Canada, then the fact that this has been the nicest winter on record is probably something you love. Of course, if you came here for the opposite reason, then you’re probably royally cheesed right about now. Well, the good news for the latter group of people is that if you’re staying for at least another …read more
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In honour of this the 100th post on The Toronto Traveler, I bring you a very special Toronto Picture of the Day
As many people already know, we Canadians love our hockey and Toronto has the honour of being the city that is home to the hockey hall of fame. Every trip to this building of hallowed hockey talent is a fantastic one and the outside architecture of it isn’t that bad either.
Here is your latest helping of news from the T-Dot:
1) Alycia Heitt and Brother win $36 million lottery prize
2) Unexpectedly warm weather causes some ponds to dangerously melt
3) Canada’s as good as gold at the World Junior Hockey Championships
4) Good news for tourists: GO Transit strike averted at the last minute
5) It’s like skiing in your own backyard?
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